“Going Dark” at the Guggenheim Museum

In New York, David Hammons, Faith Ringgold, and other Black arts luminaries enroll strategies for asserting Blackness into public view or going entirely incognito.

Wong Ping at MAK

In Vienna, animated allegories of Hong Kong’s political quandaries and the global desensualizations of the internet overflow with sex, puns, and high-speed chaos.

Emilio Prini at MACRO

In Rome, an encyclopedic show of anti-commodities, auto-documentations, and studies in emptiness typifies an Arte Povera prankster’s conviction that work is unfinishable.

Rirkrit Tiravanija at MoMA PS1

Transcending relational aesthetics, a New York retrospective catalogues the artist’s troubling of Western objecthood and the commodification of “Tiravanija” in a globalized art world.

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Spike’s Winter issue is a beacon lit to rescue The Night.

Long held under suspicion as the domain of outcasts and phantoms, the night has come under pressure to extend the horizon of work and production.

What faith, the state, and capital fear are the perils and promises of the dark’s formlessness: to withdraw into the pure solitude of sleep and dreams’ unreason; to blush with the pure elation of dance and a rave’s ephemeral friendships; even to have one’s edges undone by the murmurs of ghosts or a celestial sign.

Need a break from the tyranny of the sun? Then light a candle, a headlamp, a flare – anything but your phone – and follow us into the possibility of the night.

Featuring Mark Leckey, Ellen Cantor, Gertrude Stein, Piotr Uklański, P.Staff, Josephine Pryde, Blackhaine, Diego Marcon, Ingrid Wiener, Olivier Assayas, Jamieson Webster, Steven-Phillips-Horst, and other nocturnal luminaries.

“There Is Something Odd…” at Christine König Galerie
By Ramona Heinlein

In Vienna, bold figurative paintings by Cathrin Hoffmann, Laurent Proux, and Pieter Schoolwerth render the nightmarish gaps between visceral and virtual realities.

Art in the Afterlife of the Rave
By Michelle Lhooq

What happened during LA art week? A little woo woo for white women, Eartheater doing her occult thing, some shop talk about drugs. But there are rich people complaining everywhere these days.

On Frumpiness
By Joanna Walsh

If frumpiness is everything fashion doesn’t want to be, what is “post-frump” and how can it save style?

Gisèle Vienne’s “EXTRA LIFE” at Tanzquartier Wien
By Gianna Virginia Prein

Her second choreography with Adèle Haenel raises the question: Is talking through childhood trauma an ode to new beginnings, or just another turn round an endless carousel?

7pm in Paris
By Camille Bidault-Waddington

Hermès went leather, Balenciaga zen, Loewe anti-Pantone, and gremlins are in, and post-punk is lazy, and not all women are lesbians? A stylist logs her attacks of desire at Fashion Week 2024.

“I gave up making sculpture, and I walked into the space”: Joan Jonas
By Barbara Clausen

For half a century, the “sculptural” performance artist, now the subject of a MoMA retrospective, has used shards of myth and ritual to cut into history’s repetitions and the images they yield.

“Unbound: Performance as Rupture” at JSF Berlin
By Francesco Tenaglia

A sixty-year survey including Eleanor Antin, Vaginal Davis, and Akeem Smith tracks recorded performance’s shift from antagonism to top-down media to ubiquity in the experience economy.

The Pure Geometry of a Harley: Olivier Mosset
By Francesco João

A radical Minimalist talks seeing custom choppers in the lineage of readymades and feeling lost in a century where art has no limits.

At the End of the Secret Paths
By Thomas Irmer

In memory of René Pollesch (1962–2024), a 2005 conversation with Olaf Nicolai distills the late Volksbühne director’s onstage commitment to affirming his collaborators’ lives in all their messy specif...

What’s after Post-Internet Art?
By Kat Kitay

Technoromanticism may find the sublime by devirtualizing online culture – or usher in an end-times of Gothic circuit board worship.

On Luxury
By Joanna Walsh

Is luxury just a signifier of wealth, or can it exist without class? As with any fashion phenomenon, what appears like a matter of economy turns out to be a question of gender, too.

Dismantling The House Tech Built: Mimi Ọnụọha
By Alexandra Gilliams

Jailbreaking the algorithmic violence of Big Tech’s new toys, the Brooklyn-based artist creates shelters for nuance amid the growing storm of datification.

Haus-Rucker-Co at Lentos Museum
By Patricia Grzonka

In Linz, a playground of inflatables, wearables, and other whimsical inventions refresh the art and architecture group’s utopianism for our gloomy present.

Real Costumes for Real Dreams: Ottolinger
By Spike

Fresh off Paris Fashion Week, Local luminaries Christa Bösch and Cosima Gadient on false timelessness, what not to wear in the Alps, and which of their looks get scanned twice at airport security.

Nicole-Antonia Spagnola at Felix Gaudlitz
By Spike

In Vienna, the kid-avatar of “DIY or DIE” is barely big enough to play their guitar.

Tishan Hsu at Secession
By Ramona Heinlein

Deliriously vibrating between wonder and unease, an exhibition in Vienna deepens the artist’s probe into the fusion of bodies and machines.

The Will to Exhaust: Pope.L
By Adrienne Edwards

Whether eating a financial daily shred by shred or crawling along all of Broadway, the late artist pried open the joists of capital and race in the American id via abjection, precarity, and play.

On Predictions
By Joanna Walsh

Can style be eternal and yet evolve, or are we just addicted to prediction? Joanna Walsh explains why skinny jeans are both in and out, and why it’s impossible to wear what’s actually in fashion.

Doris Guo at Empty Gallery
By Jaime Chu

Mounted in Hong Kong in contrapuntal pairs, an exhibition of photographs beside the artist’s mother’s works finesses the breakages of migration and the limits of familial understanding.

Niko Pirosmani at Fondation Beyeler
By Rebecka Domig

Stocked with folkish motifs in pitch-dark frames, a retrospective in Basel captures the tavern painter’s singularity during the eruption of Georgian modernism.

Getting in via the Glitch: Mindy Seu
By Tina Rivers Ryan

The author of the Cyberfeminism Index talks decoding the social stack, embedding politics in book design, and raiding the resources of forever institutions.

Dum Dum Boys
By Tea Hacic-Vlahovic

Does all the leather on LA corners mean rockstars are in again? A recovering sex columnist on straight men dressing gay and the groupie as style’s new muse.

So What About 2023?
By Matilda Lin Berke, Michelle Cotton, Sandro Droschl, Dean Kissick, Geoffrey Mak, Francesco Tenaglia, and Issy Wood

What’s left from the year that was? A lucky septet of writers, curators, and artists review the sweetnesses lingering on their tongues and the splinters still stuck under their skins.

“After Laughter Comes Tears” at Mudam
By Isabella Zamboni

Queued up in four parts, a performative exhibition in Luxembourg copes with post-industrialism’s many identity crises in a chart-topper’s exuberant register.